Keyboard Warriors : Unite and do something positive with your lives

I follow a few non-Oracle channels on Youtube and I sometimes check out the comments, which seem to be a constant stream of keyboard warriors posting their negative rubbish. Whatever people do, the commenters claim to be able to do it better, or claim they know someone who can. If it is sport or fitness related, it will be followed by accusations of using performance enhancing drugs, which although it may be true, does not negate the thousands of hours of training and dieting people put in to get where they are.

The technology press makes your average Youtube channel comments section seem like a playground spat. Lots of articles by people who are totally ignorant about the technology they are “reporting”. In many cases, spending 5 minutes reading Wikipedia would be enough to dispel most of the garbage that is written, but unfortunately, those with an axe to grind don’t even do that. They read a headline and run with it. The language is straight out of conspiracy theory. Phrases like, “some experts believe”, and, “an insider told us”, are used like they are going out of fashion.

Imagine a world where all the time spent writing derogatory comments and downright lies was spent on doing something productive. Maybe producing informative articles and videos to help people, or contributing to open source projects. The press and TV has long been fuelled by fear and hate. Social media is one giant hate crime. If people aren’t being directly mean, they are trying to convince you that their life is better than yours, or their children are prettier or more intelligent that yours. It is all so terribly sad and boring. I’m not claiming I am above all this. I have been guilty of the same thing on numerous occasions.

So next time you do *anything* ask yourself, “Will what I am about to do have a positive impact?” If the answer is no, you probably shouldn’t do it.

Surprisingly, this post was not initiated as a result of something that was said or done to me. I have just witnessed several things this week that have made me really angry. What really irks me is I allowed those people to have that power over me. I allowed their actions to make me angry.

Enough of this hippy bullshit. I’m going to play with 12c…

Cheers

Tim…

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